Connected devices and systems have become an integral part of our everyday life and we take this for granted. Finding the fastest way to our destination with a smartphone, reading the news on a tablet ...

A software architecture as defined in IEEE 1471 is “the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationship to each other, and to the environment, and the principles ...

The trend toward software being architected in which components are loosely coupled, interactions are performed reliably and asynchronously through the use of message-based systems, and access to ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

When the Agile Manifesto came out in 2001, it stated that one of the 12 principles of agile software is that “the best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” At ...

Since we began working on the first book in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series in the mid-nineties, the discussion about what software architecture specifically entails has repeatedly ...